Chinese camps surveil and punish Uyghur detainees even for weeping over photos

Evidence

As I looked at Dara, I remembered reading the account of a Uyghur mother locked alone inside a camp. “At night she kept looking at her son’s picture, and crying. Since the guards could see this on the camera, they yelled at her over the speaker, ‘If you look at your son’s picture and cry again, we will take it away.’ ” I wondered, and still do, how she endured. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 636

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s parallel reading of Iftikhar for policy-transfer between states — the CCTV-monitored camp echoes surveillance techniques seen in US internment contexts.